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nice Awaki & Accel fights is all I can say about this ep. and for that alone it deserves 10/10.

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well, this 2nd season was a bit of a letdown compared to the 1st. I remember waiting impatiently for the new episode every week, during 1st season. But this time, that same feeling was not there anymore; it seems to me that this 2nd season was just dragging itself along, or was I dragging myself to watch it? dunno...

chara designs and animation quality were particularly inconsistent throughout the whole series. I really hope they'll fix these issues when making season 3, otherwise is just gonna be another major letdown.

then again, I heard that things just get way more bloody/violent from here onwards, and honestly that doesn't really bode well for me, since I'm certainly not looking forward to excessive gore/violence in my anime.
that being said, I think I'm more hyped for Railgun 2 than Index III.

to sum it up, all I can remember from this 2nd season is: "Oriana's BOOBS (caps-lock since they're BIG), Pedo-Stiyl, the fact that Accelerator doesn't give a damn about a well-endowed woman nekkid-body, Kihara trolling Accelerator, Awaki's legs, Touma punching lolis in the face, Aleister endlessly grinning, an army of battle nuns puncturing their ear-drums, and Laura's wet-service in the bath-tub..."
-- dunno if that's a good thing or a bad thing...

overall, I give this series a 6/10 for the first-half (i.e. 'till the end of the Italy-arc) and 7/10 from there onwards.
really could've been better, 1st season was 8.5/10 for me... but this season just wasn't that good.

Well not a bad way to wrap things up. Normally I'd be bothered with Index's random head biting, but Touma deserved something like that this time. Without Accelerator Touma and Mikoto's mother would have gotten themselves killed all because they didn't want to drag Mikoto into it. This is an assassination attempt on her mother, think she probably would have liked to be apprised of the situation. It would have been safer and easier to just let her blast the Skillout guys to hell. Don't think she would have been all that happy to see their corpses just because they decided she shouldn't know about it.

And really Touma going on a speech about being a level 0 when you have such a special ability just sounds fake. The key points were true, but he shouldn't act like he's a normal person when he's not.

A well done job by Accelerator though. He got his target after a rough fight, he took care of some side business (which would have been nice to see a bit of), and he saved Touma and Mikoto's mother. A busy day, but he managed to get it all taken care of without much fuss. Good luck taking care of the higher ups since with their ability to mess with his power activation it's a risky venture.

And really Touma going on a speech about being a level 0 when you have such a special ability just sounds fake. The key points were true, but he shouldn't act like he's a normal person when he's not.

Well not all level 0's are powerless. Take Tsuchimikado for instance, he's a level 0 but he technically has his auto-rebirth ability.

Description of a level 0 from the Index wiki:
"Exceptions aside, cannot be considered completely powerless, but are the so-called "students that can't keep up at school". Might possess some degree of power, but unable to truly control it. "

This might not mean much to most normal people, but this little piece of news just made my day in the most strangest and incomprehensible way

really??!!! then all of J.C staff seiyuu's aces are in Index....

This is a great prelude before third season
and maybe this is the only episode where Touma's speech isn't too boring for me... ^^
go Accelerator & teams.... I think he is evolved to my favourite character in Index right now....

Description of a level 0 from the Index wiki:
"Exceptions aside, cannot be considered completely powerless, but are the so-called "students that can't keep up at school". Might possess some degree of power, but unable to truly control it. "

that's good to hear. but, so far, Touma has proved of having a certain degree of control over his "ability". what with waving his right hand around and all...
so, I wouldn't really say that "Might possess some degree of power, but unable to truly control it" applies to him.

that's good to hear. but, so far, Touma has proved of having a certain degree of control over his "ability". what with waving his right hand around and all...
so, I wouldn't really say that "Might possess some degree of power, but unable to truly control it" applies to him.

True, his special ability can cancel out most esper and magic related attacks, but then again his power is only in his right hand. It's only on one specific part of his body. I really wouldn't call that much of control. If he had any control of it, it would be to activate on and off at will and maybe spread throughout his whole body, but it's just his right hand. Catch off guard or preventing him from using his right hand would get him killed if not hurt.

True, his special ability can cancel out most esper and magic related attacks, but then again his power is only in his right hand. It's only on one specific part of his body. I really wouldn't call that much of control. If he had any control of it, it would be to activate on and off at will and maybe spread throughout his whole body, but it's just his right hand. Catch off guard or preventing him from using his right hand would get him killed if not hurt.

I'm not very sure, but I remember Aleister saying that Touma's ability is neither magic nor esper, so I don't really think you can apply "Level 0" onto him.